Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State industry will be confined largely to heavy industries such as iron and steel, coal, copper, lead, zinc, electrical, chemical and cement . . . power and communications . . . and industries directly concerned with livelihood such as textiles, flour, leather. . . . Private and state enterprise of the same category will be given equal treatment ... no discrimination against private industry...
Last week Robert Young was no longer despondent. In the intervening years of recession and war he had copper-riveted his hold on the old Van Sweringen empire -with the help of $3 million from an old friend and Woolworth heir, shy, tweedy Allan Price Kirby. Now he was ready to consolidate the empire, to make it the base from which he hoped to realize an old Van Sweringen dream-a single transcontinental railroad...
Atomic Silver. The Treasury announced with some pride that 14,000 tons of its silver had been used in the manufacture of the atomic bomb. Its function: to replace critically short copper in the electrical connections of the manufacturing apparatus. WPB, acting for the War Department, was the borrower. WPB will have at least six months after the war is officially ended to get all the silver back...
...with the best claim to discovery of radar's principle was the 19th Century German physicist Heinrich Hertz, who in 1887 bounced a hertzian (radio) wave off a zinc plate and caught its echo on a resonant circle of copper wire...
...More than 95% of its orders for carbon and alloy steels, copper, aluminum, artillery, tanks, guns, railroad rolling stock, telephone, radio and telegraph equipment...